The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually,...
It’s bad enough barging into Guild property, but we’ll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won’t stop at sarcasm. He might use’ - Colon swallowed - ‘irony.
Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay.
Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
Lots of things have never happened before. We’re only born once.
After a while the Senior Wrangler said, Do you know, I read the other day that every atom in your body is changed every seven years? New ones keep getting attached and old ones keep on dropping off. I...
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The city's full of people who you just see around.
There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?
Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.-Nanny Ogg
Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or th...
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
He's bound to have done , Nobby repeated.In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involve...
Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to pea...
It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking unde...
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